Sociology: Chapter 10 - Test 2

In an American town, a mining company owns all the stores and most of the houses. They sell goods to the workers at inflated prices, offer house rentals for twice what a mortgage would be, and make sure to always pay the works less than needed to cover food and rent. Once the works are in debt, they have no choice but to continue working for the company, since their skills will not transfer to a new position. This closely resembles chattel slavery.

False, the correct answer is debt slavery.

A ________ perspective theorist might find it particularly noteworthy that wealthy corporations improve the quality of life in peripheral; nations by providing workers with jobs, pumping money into the local economy, and improving transportation infrastructure.

Functional

One flaw in modernization theory is the unwillingness to recognize:

It's inherent ethnocentric bias

Mike, a college student, rents a studio apartment. He cannot afford a television and lives on cheap groceries liked dried beans and ramen noodles. Since he does not have a regular job, he does not own a car. Mike is living in:

Relative Poverty

In the past, the US manufactured clothes. Many clothing corporations have shut down their American factories and relocated to China. This is an example of capital flight.

True

A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would:

Want to interview women that working in factories to understand how they manage the expectations of their supervisors, make ends meet, and support their households on a day-to-day basis

Maya is a 12-year-old girl living in Thailand. She is homeless, and often does not know where she will sleep or when she will eat. We might say that Maya lives in global poverty.

False, the correct answer is absolute poverty.

A sociologist who focuses on the way that multinational corporations headquartered in core nations exploit the local workers in their peripheral nation factories is using a ________ perspective to understand the global economy.

Conflict Theory

France might be classified as what kind of nation?

Core

Dependency theorists explain global inequality and global stratification by focusing on the way that:

Core nations exploiting peripheral nations